Thanks for the post. The Missouri Border War and Bloody Kansas is one of my favorite areas of reading. Lesser known, were similar partisan wars in WV, and the mountains of KY, TN and the Carolinas.
Hill folk were mostly unionist in the South.”...jest cawz them uppity flatlanders warn’t.” No love lost.
I would say Kansas manhood should have some real self-esteem issues coming out of this dust up. I can see why Missouri would remember it…even if guiltily…..but only in an age of victimization would Kansas willingly commemorate such a shameful showing of its manhood.
It was a war for cripes sakes…..fight. As horrible as many think the Raiders were, in effect these Kansas men abandoned their women to them and hid. Good Lord, with blood like this in his veins, no wonder Bob Dole needed Viagra to get it up.
Missouri Heroes:
Bloody Bill Anderson, Cole and James Younger and two more of their later gang, Bill Quantrill, Frank James, Daniel Boone’s great grand son Upton Hayes.....to name a few remembered well.
Kansan Heroes:
Fisher – Prominent citizen - Hides in basement. Hides under wife’s dress, then hides under a rug.
Murdock – newsman and editor – Hides in a pit.
Lane – Senator – hides in cornfield.
Robinson – Former Governor – Hid in barn....probably in the manure pile...the best place to hide.
Speer – Editor. He survives but his two sons are killed.
Forgotten now except that they hid.
And not a single Missourian bagged? My mom would have plugged at least one....
Of course, we know better now. As our betters tell us everyday. Don’t resist. It only makes it worse.
Comment of the year brother! Missouri - never surrendered, never reconstructed. :-)
Not only the local militia but the Union soldiers stationed in Lawrence had all their guns locked up that morning. That’s why the soldiers hid in the corn fields. No guns.
One John Brown was able to bag a few of the slavers from Missouri.
Sadly, he was overcome with hubris, and thought he had discovered the secret to offensive-defensive tactics.
Problem with Offensive defensive tactics is they don’t work well against an alert and energetic energy. RE Lee, JEB Stuart and the Marines were alert and energetic.
You do recall that Bob Dole lost most of a hand to a German Grenade?
Shame on you.